Ivy Kim Vương

Currently serving as the Curatorial Assistant at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Vương graduated from Yale University ('23) magna cum laude with a B.A. in the History of Art and distinction in the major. Her research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Vietnamese American and Asian diasporic art focusing on sculpture, painting, and time-based media. She interrogates U.S. histories of the War in Vietnam, which centers U.S. soldiers as its primary victims, and uplifts underrepresented Vietnamese counter-perspectives through art history and museum curation. Her undergraduate senior thesis, "Biển Nhớ / Where the Sea Remembers: Returning Home to Nước / Water in the Art of Thuan Vu and Antonius-Tín Bui," expands the concept of transnationalism to include the oceanic through works featured in this exhibition; it received the prestigious Mark Deitz Memorial Prize.

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Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water is her inaugural curatorial project, first shown at Creative Arts Workshop for Artspace New Haven's 2022 Open Source Art Festival. The show traveled to the CCACC Art Gallery in Gaithersburg, Maryland, for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in 2023. It received numerous certificates from local government officials for its cultural significance.